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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

A little snow and the state goes tits up

I played it smart and drove home Sunday, the roads were already sort of disastrous so I figured it was a good choice. Not that I mind being stuck in the cabin but there is something called work and when it's the last day of the month, everyone needs to be present.

It ended up being a good decision, the storm swooped in yesterday with anger and malice. I hung out in my old office watching the display of horrible decision making and vehicle choices as people spun out all over the roads, tried to tackle an icy hill, etc. The only dreadful thing was thinking about how much snow I had to shovel at home.

22:45 rolled in and I had to call it a night and get something to eat. I had a double shot of Calvados brandy from Normady sitting on the counter airing out, something that's a rare treat for me. It made me all warm and fuzzy and I no longer cared about how wet I was. Since my internal temp seems to run in full furnace blast mode I wasn't cold, just wet. My neighbor asked me if it was really t-shirt weather.

Isn't it always t-shirt weather when that's what you have on? An online friend from Europe asked me if I was alive and if I was prepared to be stuck inside for a few days...

Everything is closed today, if you step outside you will die. I'm at work with a few other brave souls and we have about a 50% call in 'snow' already. Lame. It's windy so if you step outside not only will you die but you will get deadly frostbite. If you manage not to die you should stay off the roads or you will really die for sure. I wanted to visit Starbucks this morning but didn't want to die.

Can't wait to text our mountain neighbor and see how much snow we have there (although to be fair they don't live in the tree's and get about half as much). I'm expecting we will shovel a few feet down there. Forecast is wind and sun for the next week so it's going to be messy and fun! Cheers!

About 30 inches, if not more

Note to self: buy a snow roof rake...

We failed to remove the tomato plants last year, now we are growing snow!

i think you will be one of the few people who will truly appreciated this story:

last winter everyone knew for a week in advance that a big snow storm was coming and everyone had plenty of time to "prep" for it. the morning of the snowstorm - it was a real blizzard - i get a call from my next door neighbour who is driving into the city (hour and a half away) with her husband right in the middle of the blizzard! she asked if jam could go over to their house and turn off the generator!!??!! they had forgotten to turn it off before they left to drive to the city to get more gas for the generator.

as you well know, me and jam just shook our heads. jam went over and there was the generator sitting out in the middle of the snow! so he gathered some stuff out of their barn and tried to build a makeshift house for it.

we still shake our heads at that one! people are nuts and seem to get nuttier in snow storms!

I would have responded to that call with an 'f-serious right now?'The days when I think we don't have our act together I just have to remember the other days.Like the guy this morning who was driving with 2+ feet of snow on his car and 2 eye holes on his windshield (spook holes, probably on his way to a clan meeting). He stopped in front of our house (nicely plowed and shoveled) to clean his car off. Not only did our neighbors yell at him but so did we, we didn't take all this time and energy to keep his feet from getting snow on them.He didn't appreciate it but all he could say was something about our "expensive land rover" and how he was late to the airport. Never a dull moment I swear.